Timetable: Days honouring the lives of Gene Golub and Ron Mitchell


Thursday February 28

10.30 - 11.00

Registration, Morning Coffee
11.05 - 11.45 Ian Sloan The high-dimensional frontier - theory and application
11.50 - 12.30 Bob Anderssen Gene and Ron: Lebedev-Finogenov and Petrov-Galerkin
12.30 - 1.30

Lunch
1.30 - 2.10 Steve Roberts Well balanced schemes for the shallow water wave equations
2.10 - 2.50 Greg Doherty Network scheduling algorithms
2.50 - 3.30 Rob Womersley Optimization, determinants, interpolation and cubature
3.30 - 4.00

MSI Colloquium Tea
4.00 - 5.00 Mike Powell The unimportance of theory (MSI Colloquium)
7.00

Dinner


Friday February 29

 
9.00 - 9.40 Mike Osborne Gene Golub, Jim Wilkinson, and the least squares revolution
9.50 - 10.30 Markus Hegland Speeding up backfitting of large linear additive models
10.30 - 11.00

Morning Coffee
11.00 - 11.40 Eric Chu Numerical treatment of palindromic eigenvalue problems
11.50 - 12.30 Richard Brent Computing ratings from eigenvectors
12.30

Lunch

Lectures will be held in room G35 in the Mathematical Sciences Building. Campus map reference GH32.